Quotes About Representation

Being from a small farmers' town, going back and forth to Mexico, hours waiting in the line to cross back home and training for hours, that's why I represent Mexicali because it means a lot to me.

I get to represent me and my family, but most importantly the Miami Heat.

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino.

The Miami Heat represent the city of Miami.

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.

When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.

Why on earth do we keep sending bozos like Michael Bennet back to Washington when they fail to get anything done?

When you're with somebody as iconic as Mick Jagger or John Fogerty, I'm really aware that, in asking these guys to collaborate with me, I don't want to add a footnote to their career that's like, 'Shouldn't' have done that.' It's important to make sure that they're well represented.

Broadway, in my opinion, is a microcosm of America. Those challenges that we have in our country, I think we still have those challenges on the Broadway stage. I think there are far too few African-American directors working on Broadway.

Florida is a great microcosm of the country.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.

Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

I think it's time that we had a dad of Middle Eastern descent on TV. The time is ripe for the Middle Eastern 'Cosby Show.' Or, as I like to call it, 'The Mazby Show.'

There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

I'm Latina and Middle Eastern. Not a lot of people look like me, and I want to embrace all ethnic cultures and make them feel like they're included.

Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.

It shouldn't be normal to seldom see a single female face in a managerial position or on the boards of the biggest media companies, or to feel out of place sitting in a meeting room full of middle-class, middle-aged white men explaining to you how to tell your own story.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.